Cherokee County Elections & Voter Registration will conduct a Special Election on August 26, 2025, for Senate District 21 and Board of Commissioners District 1. Flyers with locations, dates and times for election day and early voting are on the table outside Cherokee Hall.

There is a vacancy on the Animal Control Advisory board for the Chairman's appointee to fill a remainder of a term expiring December 31, 2026.

Appointment of Dr. Amy Crowder to the Animal Control Advisory Board for the remainder of a term of a resigning member, effective immediately and expiring on December 31, 2026.

Consider approval of the Work Session, Executive Session and the Regular Meeting Minutes from July 15, 2025.

Consider approval of Open Session and Executive Session Minutes from the Special Called Meeting on July 29, 2025.

Conduct a public hearing to receive input on the 2025 Millage Rate. Adopt Millage Rates for the County and School District.

Conduct a public hearing to consider transmittal of the 2025 Capital Improvement Element (CIE) and Community Work Program (CWP) Annual Report to the Atlanta Regional Commission for their review. 

Consider a request from Melissa Daywalt and Dr. Amy Crowder (ALC Veterinary Properties) to appeal a decision by the Zoning Board of Appeals for a request for a variance to Article 16, Section 16.1.5, #6, a, i, Freestanding Signs, to allow for a freestanding sign to not be of a monument style in the Highway 92 Overlay.

Applicant is requesting to rezone 2.32+/- acres from AG (General Agriculture) to R-40 (Single-Family Residential).

Applicant is requesting to rezone 69 +/- acres from OI (Office/ Institutional) and R80 (Estate Residential) to LI (Light Industrial). 

Applicant is requesting to rezone 1.59 +/- acres from R-40 (Single-Family Residential) to GC (General Commercial). Applicant is also requesting a concurrent variance to Table 10.1: Minimum Buffer Width Between Abutting Districts to reduce the required 35-foot zoning buffer to 20-feet along the eastern and southern property lines adjacent to residentially zoned property. 

Applicant is requesting to rezone 33.88 +/- acres from R-40 to R-20 Conservation. The applicant is also requesting a concurrent variance to Article 23, Section 23.5, A, to allow house lots to encroach upon Primary Conservation Areas; to Article 23, Section 23.5, D, to allow the greenspace to be disturbed; and to Article 23, Section 23.5, F, #1, to allow the greenspace access strip to be less than 50 feet. This case was postponed at the request of the applicant at the July 15, 2025 meeting.

Consider a resolution to return excess right-of-way off Cliff Holcomb Drive to original property owner. 

Consider request for approval of a resolution to waive the alcohol license residency requirement for Acworth Shell, LLC., for a gas station/convenience store.

Consider request for approval of a resolution to waive the alcohol license residency requirement for Mahendi 0514, Inc., DBA Kwik Serve 20, for a gas station/convenience store.

Consider a resolution in support of a change of boundary line from Cherokee County to Cobb County.

Consider a resolution to adopt School Zone Safety Maps provided by the Cherokee County School District.

Consider request by Community Development Agency for a resolution to adopt a revised fee schedule.

Consider request from Fire & Emergency Services to renew the lease agreement for the real property located at 1216 Lake Arrowhead Drive for the continued lease of Fire Station 27 from Purcell Co., Inc.  

Consider request by Probate Court to surplus and dispose of obsolete computers and miscellaneous small equipment and furniture. 

Consider a request for a public hearing to be held on for September 16, 2025, to consider a request for Charles Osborne of Osborne Enterprises, LLC., to remove zoning conditions pertaining to Case# 07-08-031.

Consider a request for a public hearing to be held on September 16, 2025, to consider a proposed text amendment to Article 15 of the Cherokee County Zoning Ordinance concerning changes to the advertising period for quasi-judicial proceedings and for code compliance timelines. 

Consider an Intergovernmental Agreement with City of Nelson for Ballfield Park North Project.

Consider request from CATS to purchase two new 2026 Ford E350 Phoenix buses, from Coach and Equipment Bus Sales, Inc., in the total amount of $219,974.52

Consider request from Public Works for the purchase of a Midland Road Widener attachment Model SA from Reynolds-Warren Equipment Company, Inc. in the total amount of $117,325.50.

Consider request from Fire & Emergency Services to accept a payment from the Georgia Department of Community Health for the Ground Ambulance Upper Payment Limit Supplemental Program for calendar year 2024 in the amount of $47,354.00 with a corresponding Budget Amendment and approval to transfer $16,081.00 of the non-federal portion of the payment to the State of Georgia as required by the program.   

Consider request from Fire & Emergency Services to purchase medical equipment from the lowest quote, Bound Tree Medical, in the total amount of $42,046.68. 

Consider request from Fire & Emergency Services to enter into a three-year agreement with SafeAir Corportation, for maintenance of SafeAir diesel exhaust removal systems located in various County fire stations, in the total amount of $70,040.00.   

Consider request from Family Treatment Court for a professional services agreement with The Wings of the Dragonfly to provide drug treatment and counseling services.

Consider request from Clerk of Courts for an agreement with Integral Recoveries to recoup court ordered unpaid fines and fees at no cost to the County.

Consider request by Planning & Zoning Department for a Memorandum of Agreement between Cherokee County, the Charlie Ferguson Community Center and the Atlanta Regional Commission for Community Development Assistance Program funds to complete the Pearidge Small Area Plan.

Consider request from SPLOST/Roadway Department for award of a Construction Services Agreement for construction of the SR 92 at Trickum Road Intersection Improvements Project to Backbone Infrastructure, LLC, the low bidder, in the total amount of $4,676,664.00.

Consider request from SPLOST/Roadway Department for award of a Construction Services Agreement to Summit Construction and Development LLC, the low bidder, for construction of the South Jett Road Improvement Project, in the total amount of $1,555,391.00.

Consider request from SPLOST/Roadway Department for award of a Construction Services Agreement to Summit Construction & Development, LLC, the low bidder, for construction of the Dupree Road and King Arthur Drive Drainage Improvements Project, in the total amount of $691,662,03.

Consider request from SPLOST/Roadway Department for First Amendment to Construction Agreement for the 2025 Resurfacing Project - Phase 2 with South Georgia Milling & Cleanup Services, LLC., to add roadways to be resurfaced to the project in the amount of $1,117,964.02.

Consider request from SPLOST/Roadway Department for First Amendment to Construction Agreement for the SR 140 at Hickory Road and Batesville Road Intersection Improvement project with Bartow Paving Company, Inc., for construction of an additional commercial driveway and deceleration lane, in the amount of $103,963.26.

Consider request from SPLOST/Roadway Department for a Utility Relocation Agreement with Atlanta Gas Light Company for the relocation of facilities in conflict with the SR 140 at Hickory Road and Batesville Road Intersection Improvement project, in the total amount of $72,739.40

Consider request from SPLOST/Roadway Department for Second Amendment to the design services agreement with Arcadis US, Inc., for additional design services for the I-575 at Towne Lake Parkway Interchange Improvement Project, in the amount of $89,013.42.